Tag: Black British history

Dr Ryan Hanley awarded prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize

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The Centre for Imperial and Global History is delighted to report that Dr Ryan Hanley has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize. Here’s what he will be working on:

The Philip Leverhulme Prize will enable me to lay the foundations for a new global history of British antislavery since the late eighteenth century. This long-term project will explore how Britain’s antislavery interventions around the world and throughout modern history resulted in partial victories, unexpected consequences and sometime perverse compromises. It promises to contribute to how we understand metropolitan activism, humanitarian imperialism, the history of international relations, and contemporary anti-trafficking politics, across a very long timeline. This project will result in a major new monograph, Unfinished Business: An Incomplete History of British Antislavery, under contract with Oxford University Press and slated for publication in 2032, in time for the bicentenary of passing of the Abolition of Slavery Act in 1833.

You can read more about the scheme and other winners here.

PhD Scholarships for Black British Researchers at the University of Exeter

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University of Exeter PhD Scholarships for Black British Researchers in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Ref: 4727

About the award

Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

This programme offering 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers has been established by philanthropic donations from University of Exeter alumni – you can read more about the donors here. 

About the scholarship scheme

The aim of these scholarships is to help improve access and participation in PhD study for talented Black British students.  Each studentship offers a comprehensive funding and support package designed to enable students to succeed in their PhD programme and beyond, including:

• 4 years of stipend funding at the UKRI rate (currently £17,668 for 2022/23)
• Funding for tuition fees the Home fee rate
• A research training support grant (to cover project costs; ranging from £2,000 minimum up to maximum of £10,000 for higher cost projects)
• The opportunity to undertake a placement of up to 6 months (in total) during the 4-year PhD programme (with access to additional funding of up to £2,500 to support placement costs).
• Access to mentoring support (specific to this studentship scheme)

Studentships can be held on a full-time or a part-time basis (part-time awards will be made on a pro-rate basis).  Students on this scheme are expected to register on campus-based PhD programmes (i.e. distance learning is not supported).

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Decolonising and Black British History: a teaching resource

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Laura Sangha
University of Exeter

Cross-posted from The Many-Headed Monster

If you are thinking about decolonising your history module this year, this seminar plan [pdf] might be of use to you. It’s based around ‘Black Lives in Early Modern England’, but with minor tweaking of the reading and primary sources it could be adapted for most modules, whether pre-modern or modern.

John Blanke (detail from 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll).

The seminar aims to introduce students to some key concepts whilst also encouraging them to think about methodology and historiography. It combines synchronous and asynchronous activities, and is equivalent to four hours of synchronous seminar time (it’s designed for my Special Subject which in non-pandemic years is taught by means of 2 x 2 hour seminars a week).

In this post, I want to share some of my recent experiences and which provide some context to where the seminar emerged from. Continue reading “Decolonising and Black British History: a teaching resource” →